Deep Listening & Loving Speech
A Mindfulness Training by Thich Nhat Hahn
Aware of the suffering caused by unmindful speech and the inability to listen to others, I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.
Knowing that words can create happiness or suffering, I am determined to speak truthfully, with words that inspire self-confidence, joy, and hope.
I will not spread news that I do not know to be certain and will not criticize or condemn things of which I am not sure.
I will refrain from uttering words that can cause division or discord, or that can cause the family or the community to break.
I am determined to make all efforts to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.
2 comments:
Can I interest you in some deep listening (or at least reading) of the rough draft of my currently "less than diplomatic" "open letter to UUA President Bill Sinkford calling upon him to live up to his own religious rhetoric about "choosing love" and "waging peace" by taking steps to ensure that any and all victims of U*U clergy misconduct receive some tangible restorative justice before this year's UUA GA in Salt Lake City? I am looking for input towards saying pretty much the same thing a bit more diplomatically but, if none is forthcoming as is the case so far, I just may send it to him as is or close to it anyway.
Regards,
Robin Edgar
For the record that letter is the first of my own New Year's Resolutions.
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